This was our second time staying at Casas Gregorio on Troncones beach in Zihuatanejo – two luxuriously simple beach front houses where you can make dinner looking at the sea. Despite weird natural phenomenon like a lunar eclipse and...
The Faces of Argentina
We met Néstor building his father’s tomb. So high up in the valley that the wind whipped around the cemetery’s tombstones and crept under our collars. A chill emanated from the mountainside and the dilapidated headstones covered in silk...
The great salt lick: Las Salinas Grandes
I guess I expected the salt flats to look cleaner. Like a blanket of snow, except crunchy. What I found was a tire crushed lake bottom with crystal-blue long, rectangular pools cut into it. The salt here is being...
Freaky Friday in Cachi, UFO country
Our first stop outside of Salta’s capital was Cachi, in the Calchaqui Valley. The Valley, which runs through various provinces, is known for its incredible landscape, which I can attest to. Coming down the mountains from Piedra de Molina...
Salta prepares for the storm
We arrived in Salta on the wrong day. Certain sections of the national police union in Argentina had been striking all over the country starting in Cordoba a week ago. They are demanding salary increases, and other improvements to...
Rolling by: Biking in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is really a bike riding paradise. The city has designed over 100 kilometers of bicisendas (bike lanes) and greenways and has 30 more planned. We decided to take the day to explore the city by bike, borrowing...
Just Another Day in Buenos Aires
Yesterday was a cliché. But one of those clichés that make you happy to be living it. It started with a medialuna from La Ventana de Willy (Willy’s window) in bajo Belgrano, famous for the quantity of tangos dedicated...
Street walking in the Merced
La Merced is traditionally known for two things: the market and the prostitutes. But in this neighborhood, one of the city’s oldest, there is a pedestrian walkway where office workers come to eat lunch or take naps under the...
Christmas in Belize
If it’s a balmy 80 degrees outside at the El Secreto resort, it’s at least 100 degrees in the kitchen. I can feel the sweat pouring down the small of my back, but the kitchen staff, in their uniforms,...
Throwing Pots in Belize
On Thursday we visited the San Antonio Womens’ Group in San Antonio, Belize, a few miles from the Hidden Valley Inn, a 7,200-acre resort in the middle of the Belizean pine forest. The chickens crept forward searching for a...